Wednesday, October 24, 2018

In Amazon Prime's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Rachel Brosnahan plays 'Miriam "Midge" Maisel', a seemingly perfect housewife and mother living on New York City's Upper West Side in the late 1950s who she discovers her husband has cheated on her. One night she takes the stage of a Lower East Side bar and catches the eye of Alex Borstein's 'Susie Myerson' when she does her drunken stand-up set. Midge soon find herself working in a department store by day and doing stand-up by night with Susie managing her.

This show's period wardrobe was photographed on display at Downtown L.A.'s FIDM Museum on August 21, 2018.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel was nominated for fourteen Emmy Awards and Rachel Brosnahan took home the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, Alex Borstein nabbed the Outstanding Supporting Actress and the show scored Outstanding Comedy Series too.